Daniel and the guys at Collective Idea have decided to try and take their political signs mashup mainstream.
Visit the mashup at yardvote.com
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During my collegiate experience at Hope College I took a class in Databases under Dr. McFall. During that class we were tasked with utilizing MSSQL and MYSQL along with Java for the more practical portions.
The class wrapped up with a major project in which we were supposed to implement an inventory management system for a make-believe video store. My group chose to use JSP for this because of an ingrained dislike for the Swing layout system utilized by normal java.
One of the major problems I saw with doing this project with JSP was that php or asp web apps were much more common, and jsp had special server requirements that made hosting cost more than double standard linux hosting. ($18+/month compared to 7$/month) That has changed.
Anyhow that project ended in disaster (but hey! I graduated!) and at this point I am not keen on touching java ever again, but I did just run across this information that might be interesting to somebody.
Mochahost provides a really decent hosting package for JSP in the range of $6-$10 per month. That is quite a low number compared to those I have seen before. Note – you do need to select one of their higher level plans, the basic SOHO will not do.
A Note: Anybody coding JSP or anything databasey in java should give up and switch to Ruby on Rails. You will see why right away.
Comments rss Trackback Comments rss TrackbackWordpress, the engine powering this blog, is a wonderful thing. I have been adding features to the site recently, changing the side bars, etc.
One of the main enhancements has been the addition of nice gallery functionality. Wordpress, while a good platform, is not for the less-than-technical-savvy person to hack around with, it took me a bit of time to get this working.
For now all I have uploaded has been some of my Australia diving photos, but in the future I hope to have regular updates and import most of my photos with refined selection (I hope to have all of my photos worth looking at hosted here, with none of the crap).
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